Sherif Girgis

Sherif Girgis is a professor at Notre Dame Law School and will begin as a professor at Harvard Law School in January 2027. His work in constitutional law and theory has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. He is also editor of a First Amendment casebook formerly edited by Fred Schauer, and coeditor with Mike Dorf of a constitutional law casebook formerly coedited by Schauer and Dick Fallon. His scholarship has been cited by Justices and judges and featured in venues including the New York Times.

Before joining Notre Dame, he practiced appellate and complex civil litigation at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., having earlier served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Girgis earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, his J.D. at Yale Law School, a master’s (B.Phil.) in philosophy at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s in philosophy at Princeton, summa cum laude.